• The only Formula 2 Turner ever built • Considerable in-period race history • Known ownership history • Present ownership since 2011 • Professionally restored in 1990 and again in 2011 • Well researched and documented • Highly eligible for all the world's best events Welsh engineer Jack Turner (1916 - 2011) started out by making a special for his own use and only became involved in motor manufacturing when he was asked to make others.

Turners were built initially in Selsdon, Staffordshire and then at Pendeford Aerodrome, Wolverhampton.

The first Turner road car was the Sports, seven examples of which were made as 'rolling chassis' kits during 1951/52, leaving customers to source their own engines and bodies.

Like the contemporary Cooper and Tojeiro, the Turner used a ladder-type frame chassis with independent suspension all round by means of lower wishbones and transverse leaf springs.

Unusually, Turner made his own alloy wheels, supplying them also to Tojeiro.

When the FIA decid...